Just in time for the spookiest month of the year you are cordially invited to a FREE SCREENING of Amazon/MGM horror thriller "HOUSE OF SPOILS" followed by LIVE Q & A with director and Beverly native Bridget Savage Cole and its star Oscar winner ARIANA DEBOSE! Thursday, October 10, 2024, 8:00PM The Cabot Theater, 286 Cabot [...]
You are cordially invited to receive an ADVANCE DIGITAL CODE to view SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES' upcoming film HOLD YOUR BREATH streaming on HULU on OCTOBER 3rd. RSVP HERE TO RECEIVE ADVANCE LINK: https://forms.gle/E2PdhuUJEwv9H7WC6 TRAILER HERE Synopsis: In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman (Sarah Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening [...]
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES FEATURE "RENFIELD" Wednesday, April 5th at 7:30 PM at the Coolidge Corner Theatre! Come dressed in your best vampire costume! A makeup artist will be available to create complimentary “vampire marks” between 6:30-7:30 PM with a couple of different “looks” to choose from! There [...]
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES RELEASE: "THE MENU" ! Wednesday, November 16th at 7:30 PM at AMC Boston Common. RSVP HERE: https://searchlightscreenings.com/JoycesChoicesTHEMENU Synopsis: A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has [...]
What a dull summer at the movies. TOP GUN was a rousing entertainment-- just what I wanted to kick off the season. But I was soon disappointed by Jordan Peele's peculiarly flat horror-western-sci-fi mashup NOPE, despite a bunch of interesting ideas that never coalesced. NOPE took us back to the beginnings of film, [...]
HURRY! You are invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of Paramount Pictures release "SMILE"! Wednesday, September 28 at AMC Boston Common @ 7pm EST! Please RSVP HERE – seats are provided on a first come, first served basis! Synopsis: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences [...]
HURRY! YOU'RE INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF FOCUS FEATURES RELEASE: "YOU WON'T BE ALONE"! Wednesday, March 30th at 7 PM at AMC Boston Common For the chance to download tickets to this special advance screening of "YOU WON'T BE ALONE" please visit: https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/JoycesChoicesYWBA YOU WON'T BE ALONE Synopsis: Set in an isolated mountain [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of the Searchlight Pictures release "THE NIGHT HOUSE"! MONDAY AUGUST 16, 7PM at AMC Boston Common For the chance to download complimentary passes to this advance screening please visit: “THE NIGHT HOUSE” (running time 1h 47m) MPAA Rating: [...]
This Sunday December 13, the BSFC gathered for a meeting like no other: 7 HOURS on zoom where we applied 2020 hindsight to the hundreds of movies we were able to screen online this past year. We discussed, and kibitzed, and argued and discussed some more as we VOTED our year-end winners in 15 categories. [...]
For a late October weekend-- two movies whose houses are haunted: REBECCA and THE NEST. I have always loved the original-- Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning gothic masterpiece REBECCA based on Daphne du Maurier's novel about wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) who brings his new wife (Joan Fontaine) home to his sprawling English country estate, [...]
